Michaella McCollum hit the headlines and became a household name for all the wrong reasons back in 2013.
The then 19-year-old from Northern Ireland, along with Melissa Reid from Scotland, had been on the party island of Ibiza when they were offered £5,000 to transport class A drugs.
The two were caught at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Peru on August 6, 2013, with 11kg of cocaine in their suitcases, hidden in cereal packets, worth almost €2million.
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It became one of the most well-known drug trafficking cases and the pair were nicknamed the Peru Two following their highly publicised legal case.
A new Netflix docuseries dropped on the platform over the last few days. Titled High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule, it tells the story of the Peru Two’s ordeal that specifically focuses on McCollum, who is interviewed at length and also provides the narration for the series.
Michaella McCollum's in prison
Michaella was jailed for six years and eight months in a Peruvian prison in December 2014 but was released on parole after two years and three months in March 2016 - with Melissa also released in June of the same year.
She was sent to to the notorious Virgen de Fatima prison in Lima while awaiting her trial before being moved to Ancon 2 prison.
Michaella recalls the horrors she saw behind bars in her shocking 2018 memoir You'll Never See Daylight Again, recalling how she slept on concrete beds and ate food that was often riddled with bugs.
In her book she also recalled witnessing countless scenes of lesbian sex happening right in front of her.
During her time behind bars, Michaella took up a course in beauty therapy in a bid to become a hair stylist.
TV appearances
Upon her release, Michaella did a controversial post-jail interview with RTE in April 2016 which was criticised on social media at the time for its soft questions, such as: "Did you know your hairstyle became news?"
The Peru Two were also featured on the Channel 4 documentary Brits Behind Bars: Cocaine Smugglers, which aired on 10 October 2015, and detailed how drug mules are trained.
A two-part BBC documentary series High: The Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule was released in July 2021 retold the story of her memoirs - how a teen from Northern Ireland came to be involved in drug smuggling.
Family life
Michaella, now 28, is a single mother to adorable twin boys who are nearly four years old.
She became pregnant during a short relationship and in May 2018, announced to her followers on social media that she had welcomed twins, Rafael Genie and Rio Addison.
It was later revealed that she left the father's name off their birth certificates, which keeps his identity a secret.
In her memoir, she writes: "I was in denial when I found out I was pregnant - 'how did this even happen?'
"And then I was even more shocked when I found out they were twins. My family were like, 'Only you… everything extreme happens to you'."
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